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Dr. Brook-Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy, both in Theory and Practice.
Being an attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; to adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design;
and to make it an entertaining study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an amusement,
2 parts in volume,
1st and 2nd edition respectively
Ipswich: printed by W. Craighton for the author, 1754-1755
With hundreds of perspectival figures, plans, and designs on 51 full-page engraved plates, including 2 intricate perspectival designs with movable parts, and several beautiful wholly finished perspectival designs.
Further with the hilarious frontispiece by William Hogarth showing a lively river landscape with fishermen, boats, a cart riding over a bridge, a far away village church etc., drawn without any accurate use of perspective, which led to absurdities such as a woman leaning out of the upper window of a house in the foreground and offering a light to a man with a pipe on top of a hill in the background.
(frontispiece with manuscript notes to verso, short worm trail at head of front of volume reducing to worm hole through volume)
minor browning, modern calf preserving original calf sides to boards, a few tears
Text in English
Size 8 1/4 by 10 1/3
A famous work on perspective by Joshua Kirby (1716-1774), dedicated to William Hogarth, the author's close friend.
Hogarth designed the delightful frontispiece, warning all draughtsmen: Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this frontispiece.
Kirby's book represented the first and very successful attempt by an English artist to present Brook Taylor's New Principles of Linear Perspective, first published in 1719, in a clear and simple manner for the benefit of artists, as Brook Taylor's mathematical theories had proved rather too abstract for many of them. The first edition of Kirby's work had been published in Ipswich in 1754, also at the author's own expense. It was divided into two parts, the first part concerning the theory and the second part concerning the practice of perspective. The work was sold out almost instantly.
Its success caused the author to add an appendix to the work, discussing some additional problems of perspective, illustrated with two extra engraved plates.
Kirby himself was drawing master to the Prince of Wales, the later King George III.
-ESTC T133414; Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 151-153, et passim; Vagnetti EIVb34; WorldCat 561644765, 882164484, 642374837, 842530705, 46193993 (11 copies); cf. Brunet III, 665 (later ed.); not in Berlin Kat., Fowler, etc.-=
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